“Many parents and teachers agree that smaller class sizes produce better educated students.
But new research says reducing average class sizes does not significantly improve schooling, or reduce the amount of bullying and absenteeism.”

“The Grattan Institute spokesman Dr Ben Jensen says governments are making the wrong investments in education.
“What we should be doing is taking that money and investing it into teaching effectiveness,” he said.
“If you think about your own school education, what people think about their own schools, is they remember the great teacher that had a great impact on them.
“They don’t remember the class that had fewer students.”

“Dr Jensen says the focus should be on evaluating a teacher’s effectiveness and rewarding those who produce results.”
“The evidence overwhelmingly shows that teacher effectiveness is a much greater predictor of student performance than the size of a class,”